A Little About Me

I enjoy mountaineering, climbing, skiing, the outdoors, baseball, music, aviation, and history. My goal is to climb the 14 8000 meter peaks without oxygen, by new routes, and during winter. I would also like to climb the seven summits. I hope to travel to the Himalayas in the near future. I have a climbing partner who is joining me on this extremely hard feat: Noah McKelvin. We call our quest "Daring Dreams."

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"The first question which you will ask and which I must try to answer is this, “What is the use of climbing Mount Everest?” and my answer must at once be, “It is no use.” There is not the slightest prospect of any gain whatsoever. Oh, we may learn a little about the behavior of the human body at high altitudes, and possibly medical men may turn our observation to some account for the purposes of aviation. But otherwise nothing will come of it. We shall not bring back a single bit of gold or silver, not a gem, nor any coal or iron. We shall not find a single foot of earth that can be planted with crops to raise food. It’s no use. So, if you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won’t see why we go. What we get from this adventure is just sheer joy. And joy is, after all, the end of life. We do not live to eat and make money. We eat and make money to be able to enjoy life. That is what life means and what life is for."
--George Mallory